Kevin Warren

Kevin Warren
Kevin Warren of the Minnesota Vikings
Born	(1963-11-17) November 17, 1963 (age 53) Phoenix, AZ
Education	University of Pennsylvania Grand Canyon University (B.S.) Arizona State University (M.B.A.) University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D.)
Occupation	Professional sports executive, Minnesota Vikings (NFL)

Kevin Fulbright Warren (born November 17, 1963) is an attorney and professional sports executive. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, and is the highest-ranking African-American executive working on the business side for an NFL team. In 2015, Warren became the first black chief operating officer of an NFL team.

Kevin Warren was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1963. He became interested in sports at an early age, which he attributes to members of his family. His father, the late Dr. Morrison Warren, Sr., played professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948, and went on to be named President of the 1982 Fiesta Bowl Board of Directors, the first African-American to serve in this position for a major college bowl game. In 2013 Arizona State University (ASU) named Dr. Warren as one of the Top 50 ASU football players of all time. His eldest brother, Morrison Warren, Jr., played football at Stanford in the early 1960s, and was one of the first African-American scholarship student-athletes at Stanford.

As a young boy, Kevin was struck by a car and forced into traction and a body cast for many months. Doctors informed Warren that there was a chance he might not walk again, and therefore it was highly unlikely that he would ever fulfill any dreams he had of playing sports. Warren recovered and went on to be recruited to play college basketball.

Warren spent his freshman year of college at the University of Pennsylvania. The following year, he returned to Arizona to enroll at Grand Canyon University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration in 1986.

Following his graduation from GCU, Kevin Warren attended Arizona State University where he earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1988. He subsequently attended the University of Notre Dame Law School where he earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1990.